With over 150 years of history, there are so many facts and statistics that surround the Open Championship. We dive into some of them before the year’s final men’s golf major tournament, Thursday to Sunday at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland.
This week, the final major of the men’s golf season heads back to the dramatic coastline of Northern Ireland for just the third time in history.
Royal Portrush, scene of Shane Lowry’s unforgettable 2019 triumph, is once again ready to test the world’s best – and the storylines are as compelling as ever.
Can Xander Schauffele become the first back-to-back Open champion since Padraig Harrington? Will Rory McIlroy conquer the course that broke his heart six years ago and become the first player since Tiger Woods to win the Masters and Open in the same year?
With emerging stars, returning legends, and plenty of unfinished business, this year’s Open promises drama, history, and high-stakes golf.
From record-breaking runs to surprise contenders, dig into the most fascinating facts and trends ahead of the 153rd edition of the game’s oldest major.
Opta Facts – The Open Championship
● This marks the 153rd edition of the Open Championship – the oldest of the men’s major golf tournaments. It was first contested 165 years ago in 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland.
● Royal Portrush is hosting The Open Championship for the third time, having previously staged the event in 1951 – won by England’s Max Faulkner – and in 2019, when Ireland’s Shane Lowry triumphed. It remains the only course in Northern Ireland to have hosted the Open.
● Shane Lowry remains the most recent European to win the Open. The last four editions have been claimed by three Americans – Collin Morikawa, Brian Harman, and Xander Schauffele – and one Australian, Cameron Smith. This week also marks Lowry’s 50th career appearance in a major championship.
● The last Open to be decided by a playoff was 10 years ago in 2015. Zach Johnson held off Marc Leishman and Louis Oosthuizen over the extra four holes at St Andrews.
● Since the start of 2023, nine of the 11 major championship tournaments have been won by Americans. The only exceptions are Spain’s Jon Rahm (Masters, 2023) and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy (Masters, 2025).
● After his triumph at Royal Troon last year, Xander Schauffele is bidding to become the first player since Padraig Harrington (2007, 2008) to win back-to-back Open Championships. Only six American golfers have achieved this feat: Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson and Tiger Woods.
● Since the last Open held at Royal Portrush in 2019, Jon Rahm is a combined 29-under par at the championship – better than any other player who has made the cut in every edition during that span. In the 2025 major season, Rahm has continued his consistent form, finishing T-14 at the Masters, T-8 at the PGA Championship, and T-7 at the U.S. Open.
● Two golfers have finished inside the top 10 at each of the last two Open Championships: Matthew Jordan and Jon Rahm.
● JJ Spaun, who won the U.S. Open last month, will be making his first Open Championship appearance. He has four top-three finishes on the PGA Tour in 2025 and is the most improved player in the current top 10 of the world rankings this year, having climbed 109 spots from 119th to 10th.
● Scottie Scheffler is the only player to record a top-10 finish at all three majors played in 2025, highlighted by his victory at the PGA Championship. Since 2020, he leads all players in both wins (3) and top-10finishes (15 in 21 appearances) at major championships.
● Rory McIlroy is aiming to become the ninth player to win the Masters and Open in the same year, and the first since Tiger Woods in 2005. The Northern Irishman missed the cut in his previous Open appearance at Royal Portrush in 2019 – he shot 79 and 65 to miss the cut by one stroke.
● Jordan Spieth’s last major victory was the Open in 2017 at Royal Birkdale. Since then, he’s the only golfer to have systematically finished inside the top 25 at each Open Championship.
● Robert McIntyre made his major debut at Portrush in the 2019 Open. He finished tied for sixth, which was his best result at a major until his runner-up finish at last month’s U.S. Open.
● This will be Brooks Koepka’s 11th appearance at the Open, with his best finish coming at Royal Portrush in 2019, when he tied for fourth. He enters this year’s championship on the longest top-10 drought of his major career, having gone nine consecutive majors without a top-10 finish.
● U.S. Ryder Cup captain and current World No. 7 Keegan Bradley has missed the cut in each of his last five Open Championship appearances. He remains the last male golfer to win a major at the first attempt – the 2011 PGA Championship.
● Viktor Hovland is one of only three players to have had at least one top-three finish at majors in each of the last three years (T-2 at the 2023 PGA Championship, third at the 2024 PGA, third at the 2025 U.S. Open). The other two are Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler.
● Tyrrell Hatton’s last top-10 finish at the Open came at Royal Portrush in 2019, where he tied for sixth. He heads into this year’s championship fresh off a career-best fourth-place finish at last month’s U.S. Open.
● Tommy Fleetwood has had a top-10 finish in three of the last five Open appearances, including a second-place showing at Portrush in 2019. However, he is winless on the PGA Tour despite 42 top-10 finishes in 160 events.
● Cameron Young has had six top-10 finishes in majors since 2022, including a tie for fourth at last month’s U.S. Open – that’s more than any player without a major victory in that span.
● Nick Faldo is the last English golfer to win the Open Championship, that victory coming 33 years ago in 1992 at Muirfield. Since the turn of the century, only three Englishmen have won a major: Justin Rose (2013 U.S. Open), Danny Willett (2016 Masters) and Matthew Fitzpatrick (2022 U.S. Open).
● Justin Thomas has missed the cut in seven of his last 11 major tournaments, a stark contrast to just five missed cuts in his previous 28 appearances. Notably, the Open remains the only major in which Thomas has yet to record a top-10 finish.
● Five players have missed the cut in each of the first three major tournaments this year: Nick Dunlap, Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Cameron Smith and Sepp Straka.
● Cameron Smith, the 2022 Open champion, has missed the cut in each of the last four major tournaments – a career-long streak without making the weekend.
● Wyndham Clark has only had one top-30 finish in 15 major tournament appearances – his victory at the 2023 U.S. Open.
● This year’s Open Championship will mark Adam Scott’s 97th consecutive major championship appearance. The 2013 Masters winner has played in every single major since the 2001 Open.
● Thirty-six of the last 38 majors have been won by a U.S. or European golfer. The two exceptions are Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama at the 2021 Masters and Australia’s Cameron Smith at the 2022 Open.
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